Word: modus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good English, pretty much the same thing to Mitch, are carefully totted up: seven "comma faults," three "failures" of subject-verb agreement, two unpardonable cases of "purple fustian." The villain is hoist by his own "demonstrable inanities." To quote is to destroy-so goes Mitch's modus operandi...
...these Communist countries, if they could be started at all, could be interminable. Hungarian negotiations began under Pope John XXIII and are not yet concluded. The difficulty of winning back religious liberties once they are lost could prompt the new Pontiff to think long and carefully before reaching any modus vivendi with Eurocommunism in any of its national guises. At the same time, Wojtyla is living proof that a healthy church can survive under Communism...
...Murphy added that the "modus operandi" of all the break-ins matched those of the individuals arrested...
Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway), a punk-chic photographer preoccupied with photographing violent, bloody, and morbid scenes, becomes alarmed when a psychopathic killer begins knocking off her friends by stabbing them in the eye with an ice pick (a rather uninspired and not very subtly executed modus operandi which grates more than it terrifies). Mars has visions of the murders as they are happening and tries frantically to find the killer, using her psychic powers...
...reconciliation" between Zaire and Angola, both of whose regimes have supported insurgent movements on the other's territory. And the Secretary moved almost as fast as he spoke. Within 24 hours, U.S. Diplomat Donald F. McHenry was en route to Luanda to search for a new modus vivendi with Neto...